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3 days ago · Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (née Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970.
1 day ago · In Miss Chloe, her Toni Morrison memoir, Verdelle pays tribute to the late Nobel Literature laureate, but she’s particularly brilliant at describing the nature of the friendship between the two ...
5 days ago · Toni Morrison’s only short story is fascinating: pupils are truly engaged in the voices of Twyla and Roberta: which is white, which black? What is particularly impressive about Morrison’s writing is that the conceit is never tricksy – it justifies itself again and again as the story deepens, and like all the best short stories it has the amplitude of a novel.
2 days ago · The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel published in 1970 has been widely studied from almost every perspective. Critics have explored issues such as racism, trauma, child abuse, cultural standards, class and gender relationships, mental illness, and mass media power, to name a few. This essay addresses a topic that has received little ...
6 days ago · Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Beloved, is a powerful and haunting exploration of the enduring legacy of slavery in America. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, the story centers around Sethe, a former slave who has escaped to freedom, but is tormented by the ghost of her deceased daughter, Beloved. The novel delves into the ...
22 hours ago · Snug and Wide Open. Posted on June 26, 2024 by gkramer. This week in North Philly Notes, Marilyn Sanders Mobley, author of Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, writes about the spaces Toni Morrison created for her readers. Reading Toni Morrison was never easy, and I think to a certain extent, she liked it like that.
22 hours ago · The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison has been a guiding light since I first studied a module of her work back as an undergraduate. She famously said, “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” I have taken that advice very much to heart!
